Letter: Urge legislators to accept federal Medicaid funds

5:12 PM,
Feb. 26, 2014

Written by

Angela Elliott
Space Coast League of Women Voters

I am writing to support the views expressed in the recent letter, "Woman can't get care without Medicaid."

The letter writer gave a personal face to the medical hardships caused by Florida legislators' failure to expand Medicaid as part of the Affordable Care Act.

Medicaid expansion provides access to medical services for those unable to obtain health insurance through their jobs or ACA insurance marketplaces. Sources agree that more than a million of Florida's most medically vulnerable children and adults, suffering from mental illness to cancer, are still unable to access health ...